Arden Termite & Pest Control

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Flying Insects
If you see flying insects inside your house during the springtime, they are most likely subterranean termites. Call us for a free inspection to identify them. Termites are often look like flying ants.

Sacramento REOs

Our REO clients save 20% off the written estimate for termite treatments from any other pest control company. Call today for a free estimate.

We specialize in REO and foreclosure properties - the bank owned properties that are being sold again on the real estate market. We have performed thousands of inspections on REO properties. We have learned the REO process and what a real estate agent needs from a termite company to assist them with reselling these homes.

* We are proud to have many of the leading REO Realtors and mortgage companies
in the greater Sacramento area as our clients. We have performed over 40,000
inspections and have been in business for over ten years.

* Our inspectors do not receive commissions -- they are paid a salary to perform accurate inspections.

* We offer the fastest and most readable termite inspections in the area. Our reports are typed and sent out no later than the next business day.

* We can also provide you with a bid for any miscellaneous repairs that you may need to get bids on the REO property for the bank, i.e. carpet, paint, appliances, etc. at the same time the inspection is performed! (We also have a general contractor's license.)

* We can provide your REO clients with million dollar Certificates of Insurance.

* You can order REO inspections by phone, fax or e-mail!

Please give us a call to order your next REO inspection!!!
(916) 338-4700

Termites are social insects that live in large colonies. There are three groups of individuals or castes: reproductives, workers, and soldiers.

Termites digest cellulose in wood with the aid of special micro-organisms within their digestive system. The workers prefer to feed on fungus-infected wood but readily feed on undamaged wood as well. The foraging workers feed immature workers, reproductives, and soldiers with food materials from their mouths and anuses.

Subterranean termite colonies are established by winged reproductives which, depending on the species, swarm (winged reproductives: kings and queens  fly out of the colony) from spring through the summer. A male and female that have swarmed from an established colony lose their wings and seek a dark cavity inside where they mate and raise the first group of workers. Both of these reproductives feed on wood, tend the eggs, and build the initial nest.

Upon maturation, the workers expand the colony and feed the reproductives. In some species, as the colony becomes larger, supplementary reproductives are produced to lay eggs that become workers. The soldiers, who multiply as the colony increases in size, are responsible for repelling invading ants and other predators.